comprehensive
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“If we are talking about resistance in comprehensive terms, then we make room for lots of different kinds of resistance,” Díaz tells me in a series of phone calls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
By examining this genetic material, the international research team assembled what they describe as the most comprehensive picture yet of the biological traces accumulated on the Shroud throughout its history.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
This, the largest and most comprehensive show to focus on his work, will be accompanied by exhibitions dedicated to Williams at the Getty Research Institute and USC Fisher Museum of Art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Sign up to Anthony Zurcher's Politics Unspun newsletter for comprehensive analysis of all the results.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
My choice of individuals to highlight in this way is not intended to be comprehensive; nor are my discussions of their individual lives and work intended to be complete.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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Look, CSU and all regional comprehensives in this country have a budget problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
From BASIS’s first year in 1996-1997, students who failed the comprehensives had to retake them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2019
For one thing, they are more likely than comprehensives to be located outside city centres, with more space to grow.
From Economist ● Aug. 13, 2015
Overall some 44% of those on the list went to independent school, 27% to grammar school, 8% to a former direct grant school and 21% to comprehensives and other state schools.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2012
Professor David Woods, the chief adviser for London schools, said the "chattering classes" were wrong about the capital's comprehensives.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011
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